Kentucky, which has a near-total abortion ban in place with no exemptions for rape or incest, will be the first state in the South to vote on an abortion-rights ballot initiative since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade
The future of abortion access in Kentucky could hinge on a constitutional question on the ballot on Nov. 8. | Alice Miranda Ollstein/POLITICOLOUISVILLE, Ky.
If the measure fails, the challengers believe their argument that the Kentucky constitution’s existing language on privacy extends to the right to terminate a pregnancy — an interpretation a lower state courtBut if it passes, abortion-rights advocates’ hopes would almost certainly be dashed. in spending, voters and advocates on both sides of the fight in Kentucky described near-apocalyptic consequences for its outcome.
Opponents of the amendment also see much riding on the vote’s outcome, saying a win by anti-abortion advocates could endanger more than just pregnant people.
In recent weeks, Democrats have expressed anxiety that they erred in focusing much of their midterm messaging on the fall ofas polling has indicated that voters are prioritizing other issues on which Republicans have stronger footing — including crime, immigration and inflation. Kentucky is a deep red state — dominated by Catholics and Evangelical Christians – that has an overwhelmingly GOP state legislature and that former President Donald Trump carried by 26 points in 2020. But it also has a Democratic governor and is one of the few states in the region to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, scrambling assumptions.who said she opposes the amendment.
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